Real-Life Matrix? Physicist Claims We Could Be Characters in Advanced Virtual World as Universe Resembles Computer Processes
There are different stories about our existence, from the Big Bang theory, Charles Darwin's evolution, and teachings from the Bible. However, a physicist offered another proposition - we could be in a real-life scenario of the popular franchise "The Matrix."
Humans Could Be Characters in an Advanced Virtual World
In the blockbuster film "The Matrix," Keanu Reeves' character, Neo, learns that we are living in a simulation that takes place hundreds of years in the future. Although many of us find solace in the knowledge that this idea belongs in science fiction, a researcher believes it might be true. We might be characters in an advanced virtual environment, according to University of Portsmouth associate professor of physics Melvin Vopson.
He asserts that how information behaves physically in our universe is similar to how computers delete or compress code-a hint that perhaps the machines hope we won't notice.
Professor Vopson has already warned about an impending "information catastrophe" when we cannot sustain vast amounts of digital information. According to him, his research suggests the strange and intriguing idea that the cosmos may be a highly developed virtual reality simulation and that we do not exist in an objective reality.
In order to explain how information acts, a Romanian scientist published a new physics law last year that he named the "second law of information dynamics." His law proves that an information system's "entropy," or chaos, reduces rather than grows.
The second law of thermodynamics, which was developed in the 1850s and explains why we cannot unscramble an egg or why a glass cannot unbreak itself, is the reverse of this new law, which is why it came as a bit of a surprise.
The second law of infodynamics explains how information behaves better than the first law and requires minimization of the information content related to any event or process in the universe. Everything seems to evolve to a state of equilibrium when there is little information present. This behavior is very similar to the rules used in computer coding and programming languages.
A built-in data optimization and compression method would be necessary to simulate a super complex world like ours to lower the computing and data storage needs. The universe, digital data, biological systems, atomistic systems, mathematical symmetry, and everything else around us provide factual evidence that this is exactly what we see. According to one logical conclusion, the simulated universe theory is supported by this, even though the second law of infodynamics does not provide conclusive proof.
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What Is Simulated Universe Theory?
According to the simulated universe theory, what we perceive as reality is essentially a simulation created by people, much like a computer game. The hypothesis, which contends that physical reality is primarily made up of pieces of information, is well-liked by many well-known people, including Elon Musk, and is found in information physics.
Vopson's earlier work has suggested that information has mass and that all basic particles, the universe's tiniest known building pieces, have information about themselves, much like humans do with DNA.
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